My son who is a gamer, and I built a top end gaming system, and I concur. Reminded me of the "good old days", where just getting the damn computer to work was something to celebrate, and never turn the thing off once you do, at least until the next BSOD. It's a pretty thing, but a definite learning experience

Which mini? I picked up a Mini M4 when I traded in my last generation Intel iMac. Pretty nice little computer, and the Adobe Suite flies on it be comparison. I'd probably have a NUC if the use cases I have for my Windows laptop didn't have to be portable.

But back to the topic, Microsoft has been having a lot of boots on the ground problems, no matter what our personal situations have happening.

You don't like Time Machine? I have hourly backups on one drive, and daily backups on a drive I store in a different location.

I'd never use any cloud backup, that's like asking Jerry Sandusky to babysit a 10 year old boy.

What does that even mean? As a Boomer, and the boomers around me seem to be pretty darn adroit, I'm having issues parsing what you wrote.

Or do just mean you adhere to some concept that boomers are stupid?

Another issue is I've met many, many, people who insist on asking me "What do I do?" when any prompt comes up. Anything. From "Overwrite these files?" to "Installation finished. Do you want to launch NewlyInstalledApp now?"

And? You sound like the IT guy from Saturday Night Live who hates the people he is supposed to help. I do some teaching, and get asked questions like that pretty often. I just explain a little to them. They go away a little more knowledgeable.

I tend to disagree. People bashing around in Terminal (now zsh) tend toward the more adroit end of MacOS users. And just might be more skilled than you think.

And since I occasionally copy and paste, I and others are very interested in having a reality check. In most cases it isn't needed. But we can all fall for something in a weak moment

I spend almost as much time in Terminal as I do in the GUI. Sometimes more. So I am very interested in this. BTW, despite the memes, There are more of us Mac users that do that than you think.

And W11 is getting worse. That is disturbing, because Windows versions generally improved over time, not regressed.

I guess the point is that while These emergency patches may or may not point to a wider issue. That however does not mean there is no wider issue. I'm not involved with anything Oracle, so can't comment knowledgeably on that, but Microsoft and Windows? Oh hell yeah.

Imagine though, if you have a system where you have no idea what is in the software, and the number of actual thinking people is dropping to a negligible number.

There may be a tipping point where the proverbial shit hits the fan, and there is no competent person to look at it, analyze it, or fix it. What now, Saint Peter?

Sounds like Windows 11.

Topics do drift you know. Perhaps I have a different metric, but an Update that causes programs to stop working, renaming files, placing programs and files to OneDrive.

The effect is remarkable similar to a crash. And to me, a failure of Windows that I do not have with Mac or Linux

Yup I remember when i adopted my first dog from the local humane society and they chip every animal that comes through but during the adoption they explained the chip doesn't actually do anything until you pay the database company a yearly(!) fee. I ended up never doing it because that felt like the most scummy thing on earth. Maybe that's just my state but it was an unreal moment and really dashed my ideas of how these things work.

It's very American that we take an idea that rally is a universal public good and declare "there's profit to be made" and effectively ruin it.

I get paying for the chip, it's a piece of hardware but the database should be maintained by your state with free access. It just doesn't make any sense otherwise.

A computer should be an appliance. I have work to do. Spending time fixing a messed up Windows machine really wrecks productivity It only takes a few minutes of my burn rate and productivity loss to far exceed the cost of having a functioning computer.

For a hobbyist, maybe. For people making money and providing a service, computer downtime is a serious problem.

Oh good to see you came in here to set the record straight. Even Microsoft is wrong. Google Windows 11 is a disaster and find out how everyone is wrong.

Here's your problem. While you focus on a monovariant, that for some reason, the only problem is drivers. What about endless reboot loops, mystery fails on updates, changing names of critical files, moving programs and or critical program files to one drive, causing program failure and/or crashes.

Blaming it on drivers, and not using enterprise level equipment just no longer works. All that is doing is blaming the user, the old concept of "Microsoft cannot fail, only we can fail Microsoft."

The upshot of all this is plain. Windows is fundamentally broken, regressing under Windows 11. And if all the problems are the users fault, they can migrate to an OS where they don't cause all those problems.

Is it boasting though? Not having crashes should be the expected situation. A pity it is considered a flex.

It's like boasting that your refrigerator keeps food cold. 8^)

Well, I do the same things on My Macs and Linux computers. Yet they don't crash. But the same things on Windows machines do. I fear our friends logic doesn't hold up on any level.

might as well post the issues here https://www.windowscentral.com... https://www.neowin.net/news/mi...

Microsoft is saying W11 is broken, while the faithful here claim it is only poorly written drivers. And the anger is so intense that Microsoft disabled comments on social media. Here, they blame the users.

And the users? They've heard it all before... https://www.pcworld.com/articl....

Wut? Is this 2000 or something? I haven't had a driver issue since around 2005, and during installs, Linux just goes out and grabs drivers.

This! I get to see the hell people go through just to have a Windows 11 computer - as well as my own travails. At this point, my Windows machines get used for a few remaining tasks, then put back in the case, while I use machines that stay working.

People can try to blame it on drivers - which is only one of the failure mechanisms. People can blame it on Macs closed ecosystem which means that hardware and software are written for each other - by Apple, which means that.....get ready for it.....it works!

And then there are the weird problems, like renaming audio drivers, moving freaking programs to the cloud and removing them from the machine, as well as mystery changes that you just give up and fix it, then wait for it to happen again.

My Macs and Linux machines don't have this problem. Productivity is much better when you have almost 0 downtime.